Morning journal and courier., 1887-07-19
THE CONSOLIDATED.
The Many Extens1ve Improvements o
 the Road in Progress in This City

The Many Extensive Improvements of
 the Road in Progress i'm This City
 Changes of Interest.
 The Consolidated goes along on the even
 tenor of its way. No day passes except
 Sunday when some improvement is not going
 forward. The average New Havener who
 gets about town has noted the whitewashing
 of the stone walls of the railroad cut where
 flowed the Pennington canal. The work
 has been completed from the lower end of
 the cut to about two hundred feet above
 Grand avenue. The whitening of these sooty,
 dingy gray walls is an improvement which
 both the people of the city and all who pass
 through the city on the cars will appreciate.
 Then the important and expensive work of widening the cut through which the New York division trains pass first after leaving the Union depot for New York goes on. The widening gives ample room for four tracks and the northwest side is walled up with heavy stone. The solid masonry looks as if | it was there to stay 8 few hundred years at least Then the work of building the new \ and fine iron bridge at Howard avenue is about half completed. Just east of this | bridge is where the masonry wall work is in \ progress. Then the work of extending the ! Union depot, now that the foundations are
 laid, goes forward rapidly; and the two large \ additional buildings for the already exten- | sive repair shops are well nigh completed. Then the big passenger car house at the foot of | Spring street, large enough to hold sixty \ passenger cars and made entirely of iron, ia about finished. The work of widening the
 roadbed of the Shore Line railroad double tracks, which has been in progress for | months past, is work also of important | character. The gamins who reside in one DOT. \ ton of Fair Haven traversed by the Shore | Line have had no end of fun in rolling on the ! sand piles and digging caverns in the side | hills of loose sand. They appreciate the i'm provement going on as means of atfordlne | them innocent recreation, but have refrained | from purloining the laborers' shovels aftel several of them were caught in the act o1 | carrying them off and given castigation by the owner of the shovels. General Superin- Il tendent Shepard has issued the following | circular, which explains itself:
 The New York division-From East Wa | ter street in New Haven to Grand Central depot in New York, including branches from \ Stamford to New Canaan and from New Ro chslle junction to Harlem river. W. H | Turner, superintendent, New York; w. J \ Crosby assistant superintendent, Harlem river: William H. Wallace, assistant superin | tendent, New Haven.
 The Hartford division-From Belle dock ' in New Haven, and from East Water street | in New Haven to Springfield, including \ branches from Windsor Locks to Sufield \ and New Britain to Middletown. s. 0. Da- vidson, superintendent, Hartford. The Shore Line division-From Shore Line ! junction, New Haven, to New London. E. G ! Allen, superintendent, New Haven. The Air Line division-From Air Line \ junction, New Haven, to Willimantic, in | cluding branch from Turnersville to Colches- | ter. W. A. Waterbury, superintendent, New ! Haven.
 The Northampton division-From New Haven to Conway Junction, including ! branches from Pennington to New Hartford Westfeld to Holyoke, Northampton to Will ! liamsburg and South Deerfeld to Turner's Falls. Charles N. Yeamans, superintendent ! New Haven.
 The Naugatuck division-From Naugatuck \ junction to Winsted, including branch from Waterbury to Watertown. George w. Beach, superintendent, Bridgeport.
 The Valley division-From Hartford to Fenwick. J. V. A. Trumbull, superintend ! ent, Hartford.